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Firefox 91.0 is out this morning as the latest monthly update to Mozilla's cross-platform web browser...

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has been working on a number of improvements in recent days to the RADV Vulkan driver's handling around delta color compression (DCC) fast clears...

Mousai is an awesome music identification app for Linux  Technology Zimbabwe

Use the Linux cut command to get some of the lines from a file  Floridanewstimes.com

Future AMD CPUs -- potentially AMD EPYC 7004 "Genoa" -- will be supporting 5-level paging...

Why Steam Deck’s change of Linux distros could be a winning move  TechRadar

Using the Linux cut command to grab portions of lines from files  Network World

Intel's Graphics Compiler "IGC" that is used by their Windows driver as well as the Intel Compute Runtime for OpenCL / Level Zero support (and potentially the Mesa drivers in the future) has now landed Alder Lake P enablement...

How to install Gnome Desktop on Linux Mint 20.2  H2S Media

Development environment available to Linux developers  Electropages

When I'm working on projects that require provisioning cloud infrastructure, my workflow has two disparate components: one is infrastructure orchestration, which includes Terraform to bring up the infrastructure (for instance, new EKS clusters), and the second is the provisioning component, which includes Ansible or Bash scripts to instantiate and initialize that infrastructure to accept new deployments (for instance, installing Cluster Autoscaler, kube-state-metrics, and so on.)

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You may have encountered this brief introduction to GitOps shared by prevalent cloud software engineer, Kelsey Hightower:

GitOps: versioned CI/CD on top of declarative infrastructure. Stop scripting and start shipping. https://t.co/SgUlHgNrnY

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It looks like X.Org Server 21.1 (long in development the past few years as X.Org Server 1.21) will see a stable release in the coming weeks...

Russian Arm SoC now shipping in Russian PCs running Russian Linux  The Register

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The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by a large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drives backup. The tar command is used to rip a collection of

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Desktop and All-in-One Arm Linux computers launched with Baikal-M processor  CNX Software

A Case for Linux in 2021  The Kathmandu Post

Intel's next-generation C/C++ compilers are fully leveraging the LLVM compiler stack in place of their former proprietary compiler code-base. Intel has "complete[d] adoption" of LLVM moving forward for their C/C++ compiler needs...

Join Fedora Linux Desktop to an Active Directory domain: Here's how  TechRepublic

The latest AMD SEV work happening to the Linux kernel for benefiting EPYC servers with virtualization is the new "sev_secret" module for allowing guests to access confidential computing secret areas...